Study confirms carbon dioxide is warming the Earth

Researchers using spectrometers to measure carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere between 2000 and 2010 have confirmed that levels of the greenhouse gas are increasing worldwide.

Led by Dan Feldman of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, a team of scientists measured the amount of infrared radiation absorbed by atmospheric gases, specifically carbon dioxide.Â Increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are warming the Earth’s surface through a phenome...